Celebrate when you get a new member
“You have to make potential members feel wanted,” Rotarian Tom Gump says. “Our club makes a poster of the individuals after they’ve been voted in, and we put it in the front of the room at our next meeting. They love it. Some ask if they can take the poster home. One wanted to mail it to his mother.”
While celebrating new members, don’t forget that clubs also stay strong by retaining current members. If you ensure that they are having a good experience and realizing the full value of their membership, the club’s current members will be proud to invite a guest to a meeting — and those guests will want to join an attractive and welcoming club.
Source: Step right up: in Rotary’s membership game, everyone’s a winner by Geoffrey Johnson(originally published in The Rotarian, August 2018)
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Holiday message from ShelterBox Canada
“I’ll be home for Xmas”
Such a heartwarming phrase, but what if you have no home because of conflict or natural disaster? In the last two months alone, more than three million families have been displaced in the Philippines and Honduras due to extreme winds destroying their homes. In response, ShelterBox has committed all of the aid on standby in Panama and the Philippines to reach 10,000 families. As ShelterBox responds it needs help to restock its warehouses to be able to respond to the inevitable next disaster.
Please consider contributing to ShelterboxCanada:
• As a club, contribute $1,200 now to be a Shelterbox Hero Rotary Club in 2020-21. (Let’s increase from 40 per cent last year to 50 per cent the number of District 5370 clubs who support ShelterBox Canada.)
• Commit to undertaking a small fundraising campaign for ShelterBox. Check out these fundraising ideas.
Please help ensure everyone has a safe shelter they can turn into a home in the new year.
Seasons’ Greetings,
Bernie Kreiner (RC of Hinton), ShelterBox Canada ambassador in D5370
Email (bernie.kreiner@shaw.ca) or call (780-865-9355) if you want a club presentation.
Dates for President-Elect training
The Learning and Development Committee has scheduled five one-hour training sessions for 2020-2021 presidents-elect:
Tuesday January 19, 2021 5:00 p.m. MST Click Here
Tuesday February 9, 2021 7:00 p.m. MST Click Here
Tuesday March 9, 2021 7:00 p.m. MST Click Here
Tuesday April 13, 2021 7:00 p.m. MST Click Here
Tuesday May 11, 2021 7:00 p.m. MST Click Here
More information available soon
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